#1148185 lintian: Add a woff-font-in-wrong-dir tag

Package:
lintian
Source:
lintian
Submitter:
Soren Stoutner
Date:
2026-09-18 22:45:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1148185#5
Date:
2026-09-17 21:34:57 UTC
From:
To:
Please add a woff-font-in-wrong-dir tag, based on the discussion on
the debian-fonts mailing list and the resulting update of the wiki.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-fonts/2026/08/msg00129.html

There is an existing font-outside-font-dir tag, which triggers
if any font is installed outside of /usr/share/fonts.  However,
compressed web fonts should not be installed in this directory because
they cause problems with fontconfig.  The policy has been standardized
that WOFF and WOFF2 fonts should be installed under
/usr/share/fonts-fontname/woff and /usr/share/fonts-fontname/woff2,
respectively.

This MR below updates the font-outside-font-dir tag to not recommend
that WOFF and WOFF2 fonts be installed under /usr/share/fonts, and adds
a new tag that recommends the correct location for them.

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/810

#1148185#8
Date:
2026-09-18 22:42:49 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

Bug #1148185 in lintian reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/4fef631756608e87edeaac418ba5170dbe9bf4c1

(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1148185